Can anybody explain why the bail is being set so low in this case ($250,000)? I understand innocent before proven guilty but there are certain situations that warrant a suspect being held without bail and this appears to be one of them. Multiple victims involved with multiple witnesses that demonstrate a pattern of criminal behavior that is a danger to society. That's why we didn't let monsters like Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer out on bail before their trials.

Sandusky is in the same league as those two. The chances that all 10 victims and all the witnesses are fabricating these allegations are so minuscule that they are less than those of Ron Paul winning the Republican nomination. Even his own grandson has come forward with allegations.

Sandusky should be locked up until his trial(s). Not lounging around his mansion in sweatsuits and no doubt watching children's shows on TV while pleasuring himself.

I'm also creeped out by Sandusky's apparent ambivalence to these serious charges. Giggling with his lawyer and granting interviews to the media like he was some kind of high falutin celebrity. He needs to be tossed into a cold, dark cell to contemplate the damage he has caused.

Story says that — if he makes bail — he’ll have to submit to electronic monitoring and he won’t be able to contact any victims. I guess that will put an end to his lawyer running to the media and boasting about his conversations with them.

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posted on 12/07/2011 5:03:49 PM PST
by Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)

It is set so low because the sodomites have total control over our government now—as evidenced by the repeal of DADT. They endorse his behavior. Pederasty is intrinsically connected to homosexuality since it is a learned behavior.

This ability to force abnormal dysfunctional behavior as “good” with our Christian worldview—actually TRANSFORMS us into a Marxist Atheist worldview—this is being forced by government laws, media, and public schools.

Sandusky was probably sodomized as a boy and learned to desire the activity—no difference than the Ancient Greeks, the Samurai, or the boys of Afghanistan.

This learned behavior is promoted by all the sodomites in media—why aren’t the pederast producers who raped the Corey’s in prison???????? He and his homosexual friends pass boys around-—and he is still making movies-—to corrupt the morals of children.

If you haven’t noticed...this forcing abnormal sex and sexual activity on children is in Glee programing children and most TV series. The homosexual mafia force shows to glorify the bizarre, immoral behavior and never allow the truth of the vile, dysfunctional activity,

This is a process to corrupt the boys and create their little utopian society where Ancient Greece is normal again.

Homosexual zero is particularly forcing the homosexualization of our nation....and children. It is a learned atheist/afghani/muslim worldview which destroys the Judeo/Christian Ethics which put homosexuality and pederasty in the closet——(Bambi wants it OUT of the closet.....his aim and destroy Judeo/Christian Ethics at the same time—he will TOTALLY TRANSFORM this nation HA HA Real Funny. Understand: homosexual “rights” is all about child abuse—particularly rape of boys!!!!)

A local, Arapahoe County(next door to Denver,CO) retired sheriff named Sullivan was trading meth for gay sex and possibly running a young man prostitution ring with high rollers coming in from out of state and probable high profile atheletes participating. He just got out on $50,000 bail. Many big names hoping he will eat a gun is the speculation or dis-appear.

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posted on 12/07/2011 6:21:47 PM PST
by dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")

The Court could set a percentage, but when the bail order says straight cash, he either has to come up with the whole amount or find a bail bondsmen to post it, at an unrefundable cost of 8-10%. In this case, IF he could find one willing to be responsible for this guy, they'd probably require additional collateral.

He has a constitutional right to reasonable bail. Given the circumstances, 250K is reasonable.

Are you aware that in most child molestation cases involving just one victim, bails are set much higher? I don't think $250k in this case is reasonable at all. Due to all the victims continuing to come forward, including one of his own grandsons, Sandusky is clearly established as a danger to the community as well as his own household and should be kept in jail until his trial.

He has a constitutional right to reasonable bail. Given the circumstances, 250K is reasonable.

Let's see, he had to pay none of the $100,000 bail for the first 8 kids and 40 counts, which is completely outrageous.

Now he only has to cough up $250,000 for the next two victims, for who knows how many counts which are included with this arrest.

That's only $25,000 per victim (on average). Sounds not so steep to me. I would even say it's ridiculously "reasonable"...so much so that it's unreasonable.

Thanks for the tip, BunnySlippers, on the USA Today article. It wasn't difficult to find.

According to that article, a HS baseball coach in Philadelphia had a $2 million bail. He was charged with sexually assaulting one 13-year-old boy. I guess he just wasn't famous enough or had enough high-profile connections to lower his bail amount to something more "reasonable".

that hilarious...low level dope dealers here in flyover get $50-100k bonds regularly...ya know, the type guys that have zero in the bank, dealin to pay the bills, not celebrities with trust funds and hi powered friends...

serial rape, for decades, with multiple grand jury sworn witnesses would seem to be a case where 'held til trial' would be the reasonable protection to the community at large...

also, while he might still hang himself or get dahmerdered in lock up, he may well be 'safer' there, than on the streets...

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